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Posted June 15, 2016
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trusteft: Any freeware (since no GOG version) Tetris games available for Windows? Clean (viruses, malware, adware), small etc?
Become a builder (bricklayer).
Posted June 15, 2016
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tinyE: When I was in college we had a 3D version kind of like the one amrit just posted but the screen was at an angle; you weren't looking strait down, which IMO made better use of the added dimension

I think it was called FRAC and I found it again two or three years ago but it had never been updated and was virtually impossible to run on anything after XP.

Found a pic:
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/H6DxKK03fVo/maxresdefault.jpg
http://postimg.org/image/cx78ptzvv/
I have that.
Runs kind of fine. :P
Posted June 15, 2016
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tinyE: When I was in college we had a 3D version kind of like the one amrit just posted but the screen was at an angle; you weren't looking strait down, which IMO made better use of the added dimension

I think it was called FRAC and I found it again two or three years ago but it had never been updated and was virtually impossible to run on anything after XP.

Found a pic:
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/H6DxKK03fVo/maxresdefault.jpg
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amrit9037: http://postimg.org/image/cx78ptzvv/
I have that.
Runs kind of fine. :P
I take it you need to set up DosBox?
Posted June 15, 2016
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amrit9037: http://postimg.org/image/cx78ptzvv/
I have that.
Runs kind of fine. :P
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tinyE: I take it you need to set up DosBox?
Yeah.
Posted June 15, 2016
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tinyE: When I was in college we had a 3D version kind of like the one amrit just posted but the screen was at an angle; you weren't looking strait down, which IMO made better use of the added dimension
There was also Welltris, which still used 2d blocks but it had a bit more depth to it (pun totally intended).
Posted June 15, 2016
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dtgreene: Load up Emacs, and do
M-x tetris

(I believe that's Alt-x tetris)

(Emacs is a text editor, but there's the joke that it is an Operating System that lacks a decent text editor. It also has been given the backronym "Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping" (back when 8MB was a lot of memory). It even has e-mail clients and a web browser!)
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dewtech: Those are all reasons why vim is better.
Well, it appears that Tetris in vim exists:
http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=172
Posted September 02, 2016
First thoughts are to do emulation. If the emulator is clean, the game(s) can't hurt your system. There's like 4 major NES tetris games, the N64 Tetris, and maybe a SNES one? It's more than you need, clean, classic, simple, fast, virus free, and from the 80's.

But that's my thoughts. I'll suggest it, but I can't tell you where to get it.

Although... there's bound to be plenty of freeware if you look around anyways.
Posted September 02, 2016
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dtgreene: Load up Emacs, and do
M-x tetris

(I believe that's Alt-x tetris)

(Emacs is a text editor, but there's the joke that it is an Operating System that lacks a decent text editor. It also has been given the backronym "Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping" (back when 8MB was a lot of memory). It even has e-mail clients and a web browser!)
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dewtech: Those are all reasons why vim is better.
Agreed. vim is the better editor :D
Posted September 02, 2016
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tinyE: When I was in college we had a 3D version kind of like the one amrit just posted but the screen was at an angle; you weren't looking strait down, which IMO made better use of the added dimension

I think it was called FRAC and I found it again two or three years ago but it had never been updated and was virtually impossible to run on anything after XP.
I remember FRAC. We had a copy on our Windows 3.1 laptop when I was a kid. There was also FRAC 3d (or was it 4d?) that had 4 different columns to split the blocks among.
Posted September 02, 2016
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tinyE: When I was in college we had a 3D version kind of like the one amrit just posted but the screen was at an angle; you weren't looking strait down, which IMO made better use of the added dimension
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JMich: There was also Welltris, which still used 2d blocks but it had a bit more depth to it (pun totally intended).
Bah. Wordtris was better.
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